Mr. Fortuné Gaetan Zongo, Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation in Burundi

Mr. Fortuné Gaetan Zongo (Burkina Faso) is the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation in Burundi. 

He is a magistrate, currently President of the Court of Appeal of Fada N'gourma in Burkina Faso. He has held several positions in the judiciary, including Judge, President of a Tribunal, Magistrate, and President of a Chamber at the Court of Appeal and President of the Court of Appeal. He is specialized in international human rights law, expertise that he acquired through a post-graduate degree in fundamental human rights and the position of Head of the Department for the Protection and Defense of Human Rights at the Ministry for the Promotion of Human Rights of Burkina Faso from December 2006 to September 2011. Mr. Zongo was an expert of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) from 2011 to 2014.

He served as a lecturer in International Human Rights Law at the Ecole Nationale d'Administration et de Magistrature (ENAM) of Burkina Faso from 2008 to 2014 and is since 2017 a lecturer at the University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Ouagadougou in Public International Law: Special Issues.

Magistrate at Appeal court of Ouagadougou from October 2011 to October 2022. He served mainly in correctional and criminal chambers. In addition, he was member of military court of Ouagadougou and member of Anti-terrorism pole of the Court of Appeal of Ouagadougou (2016-2021).